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Buffalo, Sun City: Can Solar Power Bloom in Western New York?

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Sep

Perhaps even more so than the other rust-to-green cities we've profiled here of late -- Trenton! Hartford! Buffalo just yesterday! -- Buffalo has issues. Bigger than those other cities to begin with, both the city itself and the suburbs around it are shrinking steadily. Roughly 1.1 million people lived in Buffalo alone not so long ago; today the entirety of Erie County has just 900,000 residents. The 2006 census put residential vacancies in the city at a whopping 22.8 percent. So, yeah -- there is work to be done. The good news is that, in a tentative and still-emerging way, Buffalo seems to be doing that work.

Burchfield Penney Art Center by Gwathmey Siegel: New York's First Green Art Museum

Fri

Nov

by Stephen Del Percio

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Buffalo State College’s Burchfield Penney Art Center ("BPAC") is touting itself as New York State’s first green art museum. The $33 million project- which was designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects- is aiming for LEED Silver certification from USGBC and is participating in NYSERDA’s New York Energy Smart New Construction program.

Climate control, air flow, and energy consumption are obviously key considerations for spaces that preserve art, so the project presented Gwathmey with more green design challenges than a typical LEED project. BPAC will offer 19,000 square feet of galleries and 5000 square feet of educational space, and feature 7500 works of art from 600 artists, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, and Charles Burchfield, the famous American watercolorist for whom the facility will be named.

BPAC is slated to open to the public next Saturday, November 22 and is located at 1300 Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo.

NYC Green Building Competition Opens, Office Building of the Year in Westchester, & Green Efforts Lagging Upstate

Sun

Apr

by Stephen Del Percio

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Buffalo News: Western New York behind the green building curve, points to "misconceptions" about green premium and local market that's been "slow to adapt."
Historic Duke Farms near Princeton, New Jersey to implement variety of sustainable initiatives and seek LEED rating for 102-year-old barn.
Mayor Bloomberg and EPA announce opening of third New York City Green Building Competition.
Westchester BOMA chapter names Westchester One in White Plains 2008 Office Building of the Year; 825,000-square-foot property will seek LEED certification pursuant to program sponsored by Cushman & Wakefield.